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Midnight

(3 reviews with an average rating of 5 out of 5)

Author: Jacqueline Wilson Illustrator: Nick Sharratt

Publisher: Yearling

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Although she loves him dearly, Violet is scared of her older brother Will, because he often taunts and teases her, and even physically hurts her. When their grandmother spitefully reveals that Will is adopted, his self-esteem collapses and his behaviour becomes even more disturbing.

Although Violet is desperate to please Will, she hates the control he has over her. In order to escape, she retreats into the world of her fairy books, writing unsent letters to their author and designing fairy dolls.

When she argues with a new friend, she destroys her dolls and runs away, trying to track down the author of the imaginary world she yearns to hide within. This is a powerful novel by an exceptional writer who doesn’t shy away from difficult issues.

Children's Laureate 2005-2007 Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, and spent her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, where she still lives today. She started her writing career as a teenage journalist with D.C. Thompson, writing for the teenage magazine Jackie which was named after her. Today her popular books for children have sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Jacqueline's books include The Story of Tracy Beaker, which has become a hugely successful BBC TV series; Girls in Love, which together with its two sequels was filmed for ITV television; and Double Act, which she adapted for Channel 4 and which won the Royal TV Society's Best Children's Fiction Award. As the fourth Children's Laureate (2005-2007) she promoted the importance of sharing books, and reading aloud together.

Nick liked drawing from an early age. 'When I was nine,' he says, 'a picture that I'd drawn at school was pinned up in the hall, and the husband of one of the teachers saw it and offered me five pounds to do a similar picture for him. That's when I decided I was going to be a professional artist one day! I nearly always drew in felt tip pens then, and I liked drawing big crowd scenes. I'd start in the bottom left-hand corner of the paper and just let the picture grow, telling myself stories about each of the characters in turn as I drew them.'

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saff, 22 November 2016

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVERY ROCKING NICE

RAMYA M, INDORE,INDIA, 12 November 2015

This book is very mysterious, and very enchanting. At the end I couldn't believe that a 12 year old and a 18 year old were kissing, [not related] I felt sorry for Violet, she didnt have many friends, and a late developer, she had a lot on her plate. Midnight is a great book to read, if you haven't, you should!!